Steward requests/Checkuser/2020-02

Please do not post any new comments on this page. This is a discussion archive first created on 01 February 2020, although the comments contained were likely posted before and after this date. See current discussion.

Reason(s): In an edit wars related to articles about Ethnic Korea on Chinese Wikipedia, when one of these accounts started participating, other accounts would follow and join the edit war without explaining or trying to enter discussion and they appears to follow same chain of thought, so I suspect these accounts might belongs to same person. C933103 (talk) 17:54, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Reason(s): All accounts above take the same ground in an Articles for Deletion (AfD) discussion. The local CU discussion (linked above) first only involved "ChyuDY" and several IP addresses, which didn't qualify for a CU (thus another user was opposing). However, by today (Jan 21th), 3 new accounts were registered, taking the same ground as the first one, making this CU request check-able. Account #1 still acts a lot different from the other three, so even though #2 through #4 could be considered as a duck, whether #1 is related to the other socks needs CU to confirm. Techyan（Talk） 09:30, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Reason(s): On d:Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion, someone pointed that those "users" who voted keep (and made comments that are copy-pasted from elsewhere) are probably socks of first or second, to which both are banned by either community or WMF. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:03, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Reason(s): The users above are involved in a long-running discussion over some controversial issues, threatening and accusing other users talking in similar ways. We want to see the relationship between them, and whether there are sleepers. Thanks. --Super Wang hates PCYou hate, too? 09:45, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

I'm one of the participants of the discussion. As far as I can see, the two users aren't threatening anyone. There might be some misunderstanding. --Matt Smith (talk) 15:25, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

I accept the checkuser request. But the actual reason is not what "User:Super Wang" said; instead, it is just that the other editor "User:Chinuan12623", who holds opposite opinions in the article discussion, is wondering whether I and Winertai are the same person. For the details, please see zh:Wikipedia:元維基用戶查核請求#S89176.--Barter84 (talk) 13:07, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

OK, as a result of GFW I didn't get online these days, and I admit I used wrong expressions. Apologies. I will now strike them off. --Super Wang hates PCYou hate, too? 11:46, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

w:en:WP:DUCK at w:ro:Hirudo medicinalis: they all edited this article during a short period of time, e.g. Fantaip has reverted my edit back to what Fantaio wrote (which is a violation of w:en:WP:LUNATICS and w:en:WP:MEDRS/w:ro:WP:MEDSI, by the way he/she told a bald-faced lie in the edit summary, namely that he/she was correcting a grammatical error; his/her lie was manually typed, it is not a generic summary which could be filled automatically). You should check for sleepers. Tgeorgescu (talk) 14:40, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Indeed your wiki does not have a checkuser, but we generally want you to discuss your allegation within your community before bringing it up on SRCU for non-clearcut cases, because we lack the background information your fellow community members might have. Request itself sounds bit-CheckUser is not for fishing for me. — regards, Revi 14:49, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

@-revi: They were already reported at w:ro:Wikipedia:Reclamații, but I did not receive any feedback, be it good or bad; neither thumbs-up nor thumbs-down. My two cents are that it is a socks farm, there were many accounts beginning with Fant or Fanta just recently created at ro.wiki. Odd, don't you think? All four accounts edited the same article between 25 January 2020, 16:17 and 26 January 2020, 23:07, which is too improbable to be a mere coincidence. All four are less than a week-old accounts, and all happened to edit the very same article, one of them performing DUCK edits by undoing my correction. Besides Fantaim is the Romanian phonetic spelling for the English Fantime (or Funtime). As manifest from the history of that article, they weren't edit warring just against me, but against NGC 54 as well. Tgeorgescu (talk) 22:09, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Reason(s): In December 2019, a user created some socks (listed below, they should be checked too) to impersonate User:Inufuusen (nickname 犬風船, now known as UjuiUjuMandan). They also use the accounts to disrupt DYK nomination page. They are blocked as DUCK. Other accounts attacking the blocking admin are created and soon blocked. No additional accounts is discovered in January.

Recently 李煌教授壯烈成仁 was registered whose name resembles an LTA active in 2012 and 2013 which is likely unrelated. A sysop blocked the account as a sock of that LTA. 李煌教授壯烈成仁 soon requested unblock and requested to rename the account to another username which still resembles that LTA. It was declined as the unblock request is disruptive.

海蠣餅是福州傳統的風味小吃 was created and soon blocked for similar editing of DYK nomination page with the accounts created in 2019. It is blocked, but he admitted in talk page that he also operates other accounts above including 李煌教授壯烈成仁 (who also edited DYK nomination page).

In a discussion of CheckUser request, some users suggest using CheckUser to confirm the relationship and find any unblocked account. GZWDer (talk) 17:36, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

@Sunny00217: The only nickname for him is 犬風船 (I mean the only one he put it openly), the other one is sort of insulting to him. I shall remove. --Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 11:15, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

@GZWDer: I removed the repetition. About account which doesn't exist, probably it's stopped by local abusefilter --Alaa:)..! 10:34, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Put all local blocks ON HOLD as behavioral evidence suggests one or more accounts listed above may be affected because of shared proxy. --Techyan（Talk） 00:12, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Techyan: can you explain which accounts? --Alaa:)..! 10:34, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@علاء: Hello, sorry for being absent for a few days. In my opinion 工口姬月 is an innocent user, they don't have bad record and a disruptive username. For the filter-stopped account, the reason of block may be the username contains "维基百科" (Chinese for "Wikipedia"). Hope this helps. --Super Wang hates PCYou hate, too? 13:04, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@Techyan:Anyway, in my opinion, upon the edition pattern of users like "許三觀賣血記"， I think now it's safe to say at least some accounts are socks of "李煌教授壯烈成仁".--Kuon.Haku (talk) 15:08, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

I did looked at the contributions of the users from this case, I agree with what Kuon.Haku said above, and why not take this discussion back to WP:HAM. As far as what stewards need to do, they have done what they could already. --Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 15:12, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Ok, no problem. Let's talk about these affairs at wikipedia@zh.--クオン·-{夢か……現なのか？}- 15:14, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

All other accounts confirmed, so if there's any ambiguity around any accounts please write here so I can replay. Thanks --Alaa:)..! 16:12, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Updated. Local discussions speculate the CU result may need to further break down into two groups, but we will handle that locally. I think major concerns regarding the CU result itself have solved. Thanks. --Techyan（Talk） 16:27, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks @Techyan: and please pass my point that requests on SRCU should be as simple as it can, not like this way! as when it simple we can understand it and process it as fast as we can! Also, no need for community discussion to be on meta, you should discuss it locally then put in SRCU the summary without too long details. Thanks on advance --Alaa:)..! 16:40, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

The {{CU request}} template can only list ten accounts, but in this case there're more accounts to check. So probably I have to list all accounts in "reason" like this.--GZWDer (talk) 16:52, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

I pointed out CU request can handle at most 10 accounts in local discussion, but it seemed too late as GZWDer posted here at SRCU first. Screw that firewall. --Super Wang hates PCYou hate, too? 01:01, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

What I usually do for more than 10 accounts is to put in the additional account using {{checkuser}} in the reason column. If that's help GZWDer.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 07:04, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Reason(s): After SRCU#李煌教授壯烈成仁@zh.wikipedia, all sock-puppet were blocked. At the next day, User:苏州河畔 re-appeared and showed the same behavior as what was shown in User:李煌教授壯烈成仁, and the community considered they as ducked. Request that all sleepers should be found, thank you. --悔晚斋 (talk) 12:44, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Reason(s): Disruptive edits without community permission – mainly renaming and major edits on minor Wikimedia projects (see their activity on CentralAuth), but also on BAICAN XXX's home project ro.wikipedia. BAICAN XXX was blocked indefinitely for a similar behavior. Gikü (talk) 08:05, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Reason(s): The account "程海峡" didn't show any activity for a long time. (But) this account (suddenly become active these days and) only edits the page "w:zh:Wikipedia:持续出没的破坏者/User:苏州河畔" and his/her own user-page. Thus, it may be a sock belonging to someone to avoid detection or sanctions, or even a sock of "苏州河畔" (and, just like "苏州河畔", "程海峡" also edited articles related to "临海市" (Linhai City)). クオン·-{夢か……現なのか？}- 08:52, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Furthermore, I hope you can check their IP address whether using a proxy or not. Thank you. --SCP-2000 08:56, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Reason(s): Zeitgeistkritiker is a recently created account that started off editing articles and discussion pages in provocative manner (arguing based on personal political opinions, making political statements, clashing with several users over neutrality issues, as referred in Wikipedia discussion), while being well accustomed to policy pages and former discussions. Previously user Miacek has been blocked in en.wikipedia and in a couple of more Wikipedia versions for similar behaviour. In et.wikipedia Miacek went inactive a little while before Zeitgeistkritiker was created. Other than that both users have 1) similar interests, like arguing over political ideologies highlighted in lead sections of political party articles, based on personal opinion (e.g. [1], [2] vs. [3, [4]), editing various articles related to Polish history and other Poland-related articles, and 2) similar language skills (in addition to en.wikipedia and et.wikipedia they make some language proficient edits in de.wikipedia and ru.wikipedia). I hope it's not too late to make this request as Miacek hasn't been active nearly three months. Pikne 15:09, 27 February 2020 (UTC)